Figure 1

Left: A nineteenth Century VC (Innes). The date of the relevant action and the name of the recipient should be inscribed on the rear of the medal and the suspender bar. (Kind permission of the Royal Engineers Museum.) Right: One of the ‘VC Guns’ displayed at the Royal Artillery Firepower Museum with (inset) cut at rear of barrel showing cascabel to have been removed (author’s own image. Kind permission Firepower).